Zack Labe

🚨 Methane (CH₄; potent greenhouse gas) reached another preliminary *record high* value in October 2022 (1920.3 ppb).

October 2021's global methane abundance was 1908.1 ppb.

Note there is a seasonal cycle. Data available from https://esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends_ch4/.

Global Monitoring Laboratory - Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

The Global Monitoring Laboratory conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

Feb 7, 2023 at 5:33pmWeb
Show threadHans im 🍀Feb 7, 2023
@ZLabe
The trend is accelerating, an extremely worse development. It looks like we have reached tipping points. 😟
Show threadJörg SeidelFeb 8, 2023
@ZLabe
The Russian attack on Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions and pipeline attacks didn't help.
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Show threadPopolon 🇵🇸🇳🇨☮️🌳🎋 ᠫᠣᠫᠣᠯᠣᠨ🐎抱抱龙🐉 ⏚φFeb 8, 2023

@ZLabe One of the main factor is I believe, the intensive+extensive cattle farming, with collateral devastation of forest in at least Europe and Americas to feed them. More than 70% of farming is used to feed cattle. If we eat beans instead and had 70% of current farming lands used to grow forest, we would have a chance to recover fast from global warming. And CH4 is ~25 times worst for global warming than CO2.

May be the US bombing of the russo-german Nord-stream underwater gas pipelines in September 2022 didn’t helped either for this number.